From Candidate to Host City

The Olympic Games is a unique and complex project, and its size, scope and complexity are like no other. For this reason, for a city to host successful Olympic Games, many years of careful and precise planning are required, with all of the relevant organisations, authorities and stakeholders working together.

Olympic Games News

The IOC President met Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff for a second time at the end of his week-long trip to the next host city of the Olympic Games. The pair cut a ribbon to open a new tunnel in th...

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach today met up with young fencers in Rio to put them through their paces.
A gold medalist in fencing at the Olympic Games Montreal 1976, Bac...

The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and organisers of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 today jointly decided to set up an Integration Working Group to speed up de...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission saw solid progress being made during its eighth visit (23 to 25 February) to the 2016 host city of Rio de Janeiro. Sports venues are t...

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach today took part in a lively question and answer session on the Olympic Games Rio 2016 and the Olympic Movement with Brazilian university stu...

Ahead of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Executive Board meeting in Rio de Janeiro this week (26-28 February), the IOC’s Coordination Commission got down to work and began its eighth visit...

PyeongChang has celebrated three years to go until it hosts the 2018 Olympic Winter Games with an event dubbed ‘One Day in PyeongChang’. More than 500 participants – including representatives of the K...

The Olympic flame will travel across 26 states and through 250 cities and towns on a 20,000km journey around Brazil in the lead-up to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. As the Organising Committee announced ...